The web of life is in danger of collapsing, due in large part to climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction caused by the fossil fuel industry. We’re working to protect species from these threats.

Together with dozens of organizations and thousands of coastal communities and businesses, Earthjustice has been fighting for years to stop fossil fuel companies from blasting seismic air guns in the Atlantic Ocean, including in crucial underwater habitat for one of the world’s most endangered large whale species. These air guns produce a noise louder than…

Two years of litigation against permits granted to fossil fuel companies results in a critical reprieve for one of Earth’s rarest ocean creatures.

Permits will expire next month; industry won’t launch boats this year

In its attempt to open up U.S. waters to the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration gave a green light to conduct harmful seismic surveys. We’re taking them to court.

Filing: Government downplayed considerable harm blasting would cause

Seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean could deafen marine life — and imperil the foundations of the ocean food web.

First step toward offshore drilling jeopardizes critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, puts marine life at risk

Environmental groups will use every tool available to prevent seismic airgun blasting for oil and gas surveys

Coalition comments expressing serious concern over National Marine Fisheries Service’s proposal to authorize five industrial seismic surveys off the east coast of the United States. 82 Fed. Reg. 26,244 (June 6, 2017)

As companies search for oil and gas deposits buried beneath the ocean floor in the Atlantic, whales and dolphins could suffer permanent hearing damage and even death.

Oil and gas exploration activity would have unnecessarily harmed whales and dolphins

Because of commercial seismic surveys, hundreds of whales could lose their ability to hunt prey, navigate and communicate with one another.

Earthjustice highlights catastrophic combined effects of industrial airgun blasting and Navy sonar tests

On July 18, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gave its stamp of approval to a framework for oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic Ocean, on an area of land stretching from Florida to the Delaware Bay.